Andrew Nairne OBE has been Director of Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, since 2011. He is a former Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts and Modern Art Oxford. He has worked with numerous UK and international artists. In the 1980s and 1990s, as a curator in Glasgow, he organised pioneering exhibitions with artists from Eastern Europe and supported the rise of a new generation of British artists.  

Andrew led the acclaimed £11m redevelopment of Kettle’s Yard, which reopened in February 2018 with new galleries and education spaces. Recent exhibitions and publications have included Actions. The image of the world can be different, Antony Gormley SUBJECT and Julie Mehretu: Drawings and Monotypes. 

Andrew was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2019 New Years Honours for services to museums and the arts.